Snowden told who is responsible for cyber attacks on the democratic party in the United States

Snowden told who is responsible for cyber attacks on the democratic party in the United States

MOSCOW, 9 sen — news. Ex-employee of U.S. intelligence Edward Snowden said in an interview with Spiegel that the responsibility for a hacking attack on the Democratic party of the United States may lie on several groups.

“I don’t know. Probably, the Russians attacked the computer system of the Democratic party Hillary Clinton, but this has not been proven,” said Snowden.

“The NSA (national security Agency of the United States — ed.) quite knows who is the attacker against Clinton. But I suspect that it has identified and the other attacker probably worked there six or seven groups,” he said.

In the U.S. Congress go the independent investigation into the alleged intervention of the Russian Federation in the United States presidential election, won by Donald trump. A similar investigation leads the FBI. The American media regularly reports, generally citing unnamed sources, the contacts of the members of the electoral headquarters of the trump with Russian officials and businessmen.

Russia has repeatedly denied the allegations, press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov called them “completely unfounded”. Chapters the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov, speaking about alleged Russian intervention in elections in the United States, France and Germany, said that there is no evidence to support this.